Wrestling With Reality

Spontaneous or scripted? The pros sometimes improvise on a predetermined storyline to create a crowd-pleasing spectacle.  Redneck soap opera. Populist performance art. Repressed homoerotic fantasy. Whatever it’s called, professional wrestling is nothing if not compelling. The characters are myriad, the spectacle is grand and the drama is fierce. Whether fans believe it’s 100% true (it’s … Continued